I just got a brand new MacBook Pro and although it had OS X 10.4.10 installed it was shipped with an OS X 10.5 (Leopard) installation disk.

I installed Leopard and Photoshop CS3. Photoshop worked great but the email software seems to be very buggy. I could not set mail up due to POP and SMTP server connection problems.

It also kept loosing my 'AirPort' connection and it would not let me re connect.

I reinstall the older operating system. and now the computer is stable again.

I know this forum is for digital image processing and photoshop seems to be stable but because the mail problems I would not upgrade without a very compelling reason.

Robert

I had exactly the same problem Robert, plus Lightroom would not work properly, so I switched back to the older version and I ll stay with it till Apple relieses a n update

Hook up to the net with a cable, update to 10.0.1, problem fixed. Its a known issue. Happened on one of my three machines (a Macbook Pro). The update fixed this problem.

I'm sorry to hear this! I have installed Leopard on my Mac Pro (Intel), my MacBook Pro and an old G4. All work perfectly with CS3, and with Lightroom 1.3. (I had problems with LR 1.2 which were resolved with 1.3). All work well with Airport.

Why is it, I wonder, some work and some don't? A bad installation DVD, perhaps? One is recommended to verify it first, before installation. Otherwise, I very puzzled, as I'm sure you must be.

Bill

Bill, I work in higher ed IT (Macs) and install system updates and software on multiple computers routinely. Every now and then one or two computers will behave differently than the rest, though all models may be the same. This usually indicates hardware issues, or perhaps just isolated bad voodoo. I feel bad for home users who have only one computer and don't have the overview that you get in a lab, where bad hardware becomes obvious quickly.

Before upgrading to Leopard I read all the horror stories about people bluescreening for hours on end. In my experience, the blue screen lasted maybe a minute. So another set of factors may be in play that helps cause problems, and that is users hacking about in their systems and/or not doing proper maintenance. I generally don't have all of these bad problems, unless genuine bugs exist (and of course they do, both in the OS and third-party apps).

--Writing to you using Leopard on an unsupported G4/533DP! Originally installed via an iMac G5 with the G4 in target mode. I just upgraded my Mac Pro in the office to Leopard.

digitaldog says "update to 10.0.1" but he may mean to update Leopard to 10.5.1.

10.0.1 is a Photoshop update and I don't see how that could help an Airport.

I'm running Leopard on 3 Intel Macs and all are fine.

There are a few other threads about Leopard on LL -- you may want to look around.

For example, if you print with Epson printers, people are waiting for Epson to update their drivers.

I noticed that Mail took a long time to finish setting up, especially SMTP, but eventually it worked.

Exactly, sorry for the brain fart (too much turkey).

On my Wife's PPC Powerbook and my Intel Macbook Pro, we had identical issues with Airport connectivity in 10.5 that required us to hook up via Ethernet. Then, after running the update to 10.5.1, Airport worked fine.